IPL Auction: 350 players, $90mn to spend

Ten teams, 353 players, 74 matches, USD 9 million salary cap for each team: the Indian Premier League (IPL) is back as the franchisees finalise the list of players they want to bid for in the auction on January 8-9 at Bangalore.

January 10, 2011 / 08:20 IST

Ten teams, 353 players, 74 matches, USD 9 million salary cap for each team: the Indian Premier League (IPL) is back as the franchisees finalise the list of players they want to bid for in the auction on January 8-9 at Bangalore.

Buy a Rahul Dravid and get a batting manual free or go for a Michael Hussey and forget all your worries! Better still, bid for Graeme Swann and get 101 tips on writing witty tweets! But that's not what lures dollar-loaded pockets to ballrooms converted into an IPL auction house.

Rather, it's Dravid's studious batsmanship, Hussey's eleventh-hour knocks and Swann's off-spin as incisive as his tweets that turns them into 'wanted' cricketers by the IPL franchises, who will once again raise their billboards in the two-day-long players' auction for the league's fourth season.

With the auctioneer set to bang his hammer in the Garden City, an ironical absentee from the list of 353 players will be the state's favourite son Anil Kumble. The former skipper of India and Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) and the serving President of the Karnataka State Cricket Association has now decided to quit the IPL pit-stop as well

first published: Jan 8, 2011 11:38 am

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